A collection of work by Chicago-based artist and humanities administrator Madeline Gallucci. Gallucci obtained her BFA from the Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute in 2012 and her MFA from the College of Chicago in 2020. Her work examines reflective and transitory websites akin to mirrors, home windows, and incidental marks discovered within the city panorama. Drawn to issues like mismatched paint protecting vandalism, scratches etched into home windows, or graffiti tags repeated all through a neighbourhood, Gallucci questions what it means to render one thing provisional into one thing everlasting:
“By way of portray, I assemble fields that maintain traces of what passes throughout them and what momentarily stays: mud, climate, residue, and fragments of language that really feel each pressing and nonsensical. Pulling from trompe-l’œil and color discipline portray histories, I transfer between realism and abstraction to think about how that means is constructed from the mundane.”
